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CARD, TABLE.

Patented Apr. 10,1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Ost ich.

JEREMIAH OMEAIRA, on NEW YORK, NY.

CARD-TABLE...

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,931, dated April 10, 1894.

Applicationfiled Jannary18,1894. Serialllo. 497,267. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH OMEARA, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York,in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Card-Tables, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a card table by means of which the card-receiving surface may be maintained at an elevation above the border of the table so, as to prevent the catching of the cards in the border of the table as they are drawn off from the playing surface toward the player. As is well known, tables and other furniture, however well protected with varnish, paint, or other coverings, are subject to atmospheric changes. In those tables wherein a center is inserted in a border,the atmospheric changes separate the border and center so far apart as to leave openings between them, into which the cards stick and through which they sometimes fall to thefloor. In agreat many cases, these atmospheric changes and the shrinking and warping of the wood effect a variation in the level between the center and the border so that the level of the center is below the level of the border, and hence in any attempt to pull the cards from the center toward the player, their edges come in contact with the inner edges of the border and are pulled from the hands of the player and oftentimes torn.

In my invention I provide against the separation of the center from the border by beveling the adjacent edges of the center and, border, in parallel planes, and providing means for crowding the center up tight against the border, and thereby always insuring a tight and close joint between the center and the border. 'In order to insure a higher level of the center than theborder has and thereby prevent the cards in being drawn from the center from catching in the edges of the border, I mount the center upon ad- In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, in the several views of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2 a cross-section, taken in the plane of line 2-2, of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is wardly from top to bottom. The border a of r the table may be of any suit-able hard or other ornamental wood finished in varnish or other suitable finish.

c is the center, which may be of any suitable material, such as soft pine, or other wood, covered with baize, or otheruphol sterers cloth, cl; and I have shown such cover d brought down around the outer edges of the center to its bottom and secured to the bottom of such center. The outer edges of the center are beveled in planes parallel with those of the bevel of the border. In order to make and keep a tight joint between the center and the border, and also to insure an elevation of the top of the center above the topof the border, and also in order to support the center within the border, I provide transverse bars or battens, e, in the ends of which are thumb screws 1, which thumb screws are fitted to nuts g, let into the border. It is obvious that by adjusting the thumb screws f, pressure is put over the battenseand the center, and the center is thereby crowded up in the beveled opening in the border, and the joint between the'center and the bordermade tight and close and the proper elevation of the top of the center above the top of the border insured. p

The construction described admits of the readyremoval of the center for the purpose of upholstering. It also admits of providing a table with a number of different kinds of centers, as, for instance, centers having different game boards for different kinds of games, as for checkers, chess, backgammon, as well ascards.

I have shown and. described my invention as applied to card tables,- but, obviously, the invention is applicable to other articles of furniture where a movable or a removable center is arranged within a hollow frame or border.

What I claim is- 1. A card table having a border provided with a beveled inner edge and a center havin g a correspondingly beveled outer edge and fitted Within the said border, and means for adjusting the said center within the said borscrews arranged in the ends of the battens and engaging nuts in the border to effect an adjustment of the center so as to insure not only a tight, close joint between the border and center, but also to enable the maintenance of the top surface of the center above the level of the border, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set a my hand this 17th day of January, A. D. 1894:.

J EREMTAII OMEARA. Witnesses:

EDWARD GRIFFIN, W. L. REDMOND. 

